Waterbending Scroll

The scaling repeat-draw engine has a long lineage in blue, and this one prices its ceiling against your own manabase rather than a fixed cost. At six generic to start, the ability is a joke; the card is instead a promise that gets kept as your Islands accumulate, reaching the low friction of a repeatable card-draw activation only once you have committed hard to a single color. Five Islands and it reads , : draw. Six and the mana cost drops to zero, so the only cost left is tapping the artifact itself, once per turn. That is the design tension: the payoff is real, but it is gated behind a heavy Island count at a moment in the game when you would rather be doing something proactive, and the ability offers no way to shortcut the Island count other than playing more of them. It rewards the grindiest, most controlling deck a blue player can build, the one that expects to be alive on turn eight with a full board of Islands and nothing better to do with its mana. Against the fixed-cost engines that always drew for a set price, this trades reliability for a discount you build toward, which makes it a late-game inevitability card rather than an early-game investment.